Lung function still impaired by dust from World Trade Center

Emergency workers continue to have breathing problems years after the 2001 attack

Many rescue workers who responded to the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York continue to show breathing difficulties that haven’t improved in the years since the dust cleared, researchers report in the April 8 New England Journal of Medicine.

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